WordPress Theme Options Frameworks

Now that we are on the subject of adding options to Hybrid News theme, the topic of themes options appeared. Are there such thing as frameworks for creating a theme options page?

WordPress Theme Options Framework

Fortunately yes, there are a couple of frameworks for WordPress theme options pages. The first one I will be mentioning due to its relatively simplicity is the framework by Jeremy Clark. His WordPress Theme Options Framework features all the controls you might need and does it straight to the point. If you want to add a text bok for example, just add it to the options array.

   "name" => "Text Box",
   "desc" => "This is a descriptions",
   "id" => $shortname."_text_box",
   "std" => "Some Default Text",
   "type" => "text"

WordPress Theme Toolkit

The second one is a little more advanced but with an even simpler depending on how you look at it. The WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh features a very easy syntax to add your controls:

'describe' => 'Kittens are {textarea|5|40} ## For example, cute and funny'

Where the first word is the variable, then the label of the 5 rows and 40 cols textarea, and a small description below.

Tweaking existing themes

If you’re looking for a free theme to learn its backend and extend its options, you could start with the excellent Thematic or Carrington frameworks, or the free magazine styled Arras Theme, which is not strictly a framework (although you could use it as one) but features an admin backend with an enourmous amount of options.

Hi ITW, thanks for the kind words
So far WordPress seems capable to do almost anything. What I really love about WP is how small it is. I think that is what opens posibilities so much. Just like an small programming language like C has endless posibilities. Would it be too much to call WP the C language of CMSs?